replaced by a larger, faster vessel and was sold to Strait Shipping who used it until 2004 to ply New Zealand's seas, connecting Wellington to Picton and to Nelson . The name MV Suilven is in reference to the Suilven mountain in Scotland's Sutherland region. Have an opinion on this

The icebreaking ship is to belong to the British Antarctic Survey and is funded from a £7 billion pot earmarked for science over the next six or seven years. Osborne told those gathered at Cambridge 's Laboratory of Molecular Biology today he had "made it [his] personal priority in government